The Morning Show
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Chip: Those dating pictures are tragic.
Alex: Ha. I know. Not everyone can find love in their boss’s apartment.
We’ve just received a cache of emails and found a doozy. Cybil Reynolds, legend of the industry and UBA board president, referred to the co-anchor Christina Hunter as Aunt Jemima in an email about her hiring.
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Cory: Thank you for, uh, stoppin’ by. I just wanted you to know how valuable you are.
Chris: I think I’m learning how much.
Cybil: I have no angle here. I just want the chance to set the goddamned record straight! I’ve given my life to this place. I won’t be canceled over this.
Alex: It happens to the best of us.
Mia: Don’t let Cybil, or this whole corporate machine, make you doubt your worth.
Chris: I never doubted my worth. I just didn’t know other people did.
Mia: I’m not one of those people.
Chris: Then why haven’t you found me a new anchor producer?
Mia: It’s been hard to attract high-level producers.
Chris: I can’t imagine why.
Mmm. Veal marsala! Amazing. I do feel bad for the baby cows spending their all-too-short lives cages up, never knowing the hellscape that awaits them. It tugs at the heartstrings really, but here, the veal marsala tests limit of my sympathy.
Cory
Alex: It’s time for you to stop behaving like some fragile white woman.
Cybil: I’m fragile? Could you have survived the ‘70s?
Cybil: I made a joke, a tasteless joke, and now that joke is my legacy? My family’s legacy? Eighty years of all that we built is just wiped out by a thoughtless email?
Alex: It’s so much more than one email. You paid a Black woman less than a White woman for the exact same job. And I understand that you don’t think that this is reflective of who you are, but this is your chance to own it, and you can redefine it.
I have options. UBA? No longer one of ‘em.
Paul
You know, every time that you start to speak, things feel like they’re getting worse. It’s a special gift.
Cory [to Victor]
Stella: Alex, is there a problem?
Alex: No, no, no. All my shit’s already aired to the world. I’m good.
Stella: This conversation isn’t over yet.
Alex: [scoffs] OK.
Stella: ALEX. You blew off an incredibly important live broadcast that took us months to set up and promote. I’m putting you on TMS five days a week until after upfronts.
Alex: [chuckles] OK. Um, yeah. I’m happy to pull out a copy of my contract if you don’t remember my deal points.
Stella: Respectfully, Alex, actions have consequences, even for you.
Alex: Does Cybil know about this?
Stella: Yeah. She and Cory both signed off.
Alex: Oh, OK. I see. So you’re putting Bad Alex in a little TMS time-out? That’s what’s happening? No, it’s not. It’s not gonna happen. Doug will be all over this.
Stella: I’ll be happy to show him how you breached your contract. TMS, five times a week. Thank you for being a team player.
Paul: What, what is this Alex Levy magic? Can you explain this to me?
Cory: She’s a survivor. That’s it. That’s what people want to see right now. I mean, she got the broken marriage, she got the predation of the creepy co-anchor, and then she suffers through a biblical plague on live TV to become the one human that people can actually relate to in this shit show of a so-called democracy. I did not discover Alex, but I did bring her back from the dead. So, to your question, Alex Levy is Lazarus, and that makes me Jesus, except I’m in more houses seven days a week.
Paul: Well, I hate to break it to ya, Jesus, but here’s your problem. You’re over-leveraged—no more loaves and fishes for you. You need a miracle, and buddy, I’m it.
